Cesare Tronci visited the School of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews last week and gave a talk on Friday 21st February in the Applied Mathematics Seminar Series. The title of his talk was “Modeling efforts in hybrid kinetic-MHD theories of magnetized plasmas” (link to the StA seminar page here). He also had research […]
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Congratulations to final year PhD student Jane Lyle, who was awarded the JRSM Cardiovascular Disease Young Investigator of the Year Prize last night (Monday 17 February) following presentations by the finalists at the London Medical Society. Her talk entitled “Symmetric projection attractor reconstruction: detecting gender differences from ECGs” demonstrated how a phase space embedding of […]
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Mark Cooker, from the School of Mathematics at the University of East Anglia, is visiting the department for two weeks starting Monday 3rd February. Mark works in theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, most recently on impact of deep-water plunging breakers on a wall. He is visiting the FMS Research Group and his host for the […]
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Ian Morris arrived in Santiago Chile this week for a two-week research visit to the Mathematics Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The visit runs from 3 to 14 February and his host is Dr Jairo Bochi. They are working on the dynamical and statistical properties of measures on self-affine fractals. After the […]
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The paper “A geometric diffuse-interface method for droplet spreading“, co-authored by Darryl Holm (Imperial College), Lennon Ó Náraigh (University College Dublin) and Cesare Tronci, has been published in the Proceedings A of the Royal Society of London. The paper exploits the theory of geometric gradient flows to introduce an alternative regularization of the thin-film equation […]
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Congratulations to Jonah Varney for passing his PhD confirmation examination. It was held today, Thursday 30 January, and the examiners were Jon Bevan and James Grant. The title of Jonah’s project is “Marginal stability rates for the joint spectral radius“, and his project supervisor is Ian Morris.
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